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Use the Music Player application to play MP3 sound files that you have stored on your miniSD card. You can use a memory card of any capacity. Remember that you might be sharing the card’s capacity with Camera photos.

Before you can copy any songs to your memory card, you must insert a card into the miniSD card slot on your phone. Once your card is installed, follow these steps:

1. Connect your device to your computer with the USB cable provided in the box.
2. On your computer, find the mounted USB drive and open it.
3. You should see a folder at the top level named “Music”. If you do not see this folder, then create it.
4. You’re ready to copy MP3 files onto the memory card. It’s best if you organize your songs in sub-folders under the “Music” folder. For example, you could create one folder for each album or artist.
5. Copy MP3 files from your computer’s hard drive onto your device’s mounted USB drive, in the folders under “Music”, as you wish.
6. When finished copying, close the USB drive window and “unmount” the drive as required by your computer’s operating system.
7. Remove the USB cable from your device and computer.

To play a song, start at the Browse Music screen:

1. Press JUMP to go to the Jump screen. Scroll to highlight Music Player, then press the trackball to open the application.
2. The Browse Music screen appears. Your music is organized into categories with the number of songs in each shown in parentheses. (Your songs are categorized automatically, based on the song information contained in the MP3 file itself.)
3. Scroll to highlight a category, then press the trackball to “drill down” to the next level. Here you might see songs or more categories.

At any level of the Browse Music screen, simply select the category or song you want to play, and it will be added to the “Play Queue” (all the songs that are waiting to be played).

You can also use these shortcuts:
MENU + P - Plays selection (interrupts currently-playing song)
MENU + Q - Queues selection (waits its turn in the list to play)
The progress of the song currently playing is shown at the top of the screen.

4. Songs playing in a list will not repeat, but you can change this setting by pressing MENU then selecting Shuffle and Repeat. Choose from Shuffle, No Repeat, Repeat 1, or Loop.
5. To control song play, press JUMP + DONE and the mini music player will open.


Q: How do I fast fast forward / rewind my current track?
A: Open the mini player then click the track that is playing, your mini player should turn blue then press and hold the left shoulder button to rewind or press and hold the right shoulder button to fast forward.